Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sculpture. He builds no weird convocations of planes, no fever ish conceits of form. Like the sculptors of the Roman tribunes, his primary con cern is the search for character. The roster of Davidson subjects includes Anatole France, Feodor Chaliapin, Charles Gates Dawes, John Joseph Pershing, Wellington Koo, Woodrow Wilson, Marshal Foch, Georges Clemenceau. He went to the Versailles Peace Conference to see faces. When he forgot his pass he acted as a messenger in order to enter the hall where the intricate, fascinating lineaments of statesmen were gathered in clusters. He rose in his seat to peer at Clemenceau...
Anniversary. Five years ago last Sunday, Woodrow Wilson died. Last Sunday, at Washington Cathedral, arrived a single wreath of yellow jonquils, without a card...
Three additional nominees by petition for Freshman class officers had been received last night by W. R. Harper '30. Wilson Hill Crosby '32 of West Newton was nominated for the position of president while Francis Pitman Bicknell '32 and Ernest Carleton Nickerson '32 were named for the vice-presidency. Any new nominations must be handed in to 53 Claverly Hall by 5 o'clock this evening...
...Meyers Wilson ("K. O.") Christner, a little stolid and very solid, had knocked out 37 fisticuffers in 44 bouts. But he was almost unheard of east of Akron, Ohio, and west of the Mississippi River, until he demolished Knute Hansen and was signed up to fight Josef Paul Cukoschay ("Jack Sharkey") in Madison Square Garden last week...
Then there was the recent gift ($1,750,000) from Alumnus William Wilson Cook. Alumnus Cook believed he had the right to administer his gift. President Little, like President Frank at Wisconsin, believed that donors should merely give; the President and Regents dispose. But the Michigan Regents held with Alumnus Cook...